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@grabbou grabbou released this 01 Mar 15:41
· 27964 commits to main since this release

Thanks to the 62 contributors who put 145 commits into React Native 0.21!

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Important: Read if upgrading your Android project to this version

We've simplified how your Android apps are built. The Android binaries are now distributed via npm along with the rest of the framework (rather than Maven). This means you'll need to run react-native upgrade to upgrade you Android build (.gradle) files. This is a one-time change.

New features

  • Added NavigationExperimental a308546
  • Added ability to switch React Native version in documentation website 6c7991c 6c7991c
  • Replace String.prototype.contains with String.prototype.includes polyfill 2f73ad0 577206f
  • Make Chrome debugger faster 64d56f3
  • Added accessibility props for Touchables 33d8db5
  • Better warnings when running packager on Node < 4 e1f04bf
  • Expose option for distance filtering on location updates 109036b
  • Don't automatically render more rows when dataSource updates d2ab6ca
  • Allows RefreshControl to be mounted with refreshing = true 3e1f1ea
  • Add support for number as colors 1c11276
  • Re-render the whole navigation bar while calling immediatelyResetRouteStack 7b57b5c
  • Support for back button in NavigationExperimental 7b2b0c3
  • Stop warning about using onWillFocus and onDidFocus 5ca9245
  • Let the module cache depend on transform options 727a2a9
  • Added deprecatedCallback helper 8eddead
  • Don't show underlay if no press handlers e93afad
  • Return remover function when adding NetInfo listener 1c507e6
  • Added guide for getting started on Linux 2260d90
  • Use ES6 import instead of require in docs 3ae99d0
  • Packager: Remove unused support for asynchronous dependencies 7c03b16
  • Added two new apps to showcase (Choke and MyPED) 0f850b4 272096c

Bug fixes

  • Remove React dev tools upsell until it's supported 184c708
  • Fix inspector for displaying styles' value 97b8a57
  • Fix bug when multiGet requests with overlapping key sets get issued 52755fd
  • Add missing Children.toArray 7cbad9f
  • Improve copyright year in docs de3b942
  • Fix StyleInspector warning about unique key prop 97741af

Android

New features

  • Expose Dimension.get('screen') 228a1fe
  • Return object with remove method from BackAndroid.addEventListener 8f6e074
  • Added .setItems() integration for Android AlertDialog 4fd115f
  • Cache image resource ids fef4196
  • Use new DisplayMetrics object in getDisplayMetrics 6ac007b
  • Add better error messages on js bundle downloads 81dc884
  • WebWorkers: Pass bridge to JS executors cf7a97c
  • Allow use external typeface in native code 17fcc94
  • Support corner radius 4937a4c
  • Document working with Android Studio abdca04
  • Document DatePicker and TimerPicker 05e4236
  • Consume artifacts from npm 702f999
  • Add Object.getPropertyNames() and Object.toJSONMap APIs bab4818
  • Format exceptions correctly when crashing 0b89b18
  • Strip devsupport from prod builds 8720d4b
  • Add 'file://' prefix to sourceURL when loading a script from a file f2a60a2

Bug fixes

  • Fix proguard template for ReactProp and ReactPropGroup 10c0758
  • Fix issue that breaks scroll views w/ RefreshControl on Android 9879717
  • Fix race in Catalyst tests 294185a
  • Snapshot BackAndroid event listeners while an event is dispatched 9040315
  • Fix icon handling 142f8c9
  • Fix "POST has no body" a7521a2

iOS

New features

  • More helpful description for native-js prop mismatch 375abc3
  • Add support for textAlign on iOS multiline text input 7b22606
  • Expose flow events to JS + add JS -> Native flows c00049c
  • Add ability to listen and dismiss local notifications 758d9e8
  • Restricted image decoding to 2 simultaneous threads 915e582
  • Make JS async always the top thread in systrace 84f51da

Bug fixes

  • Fix 404 error on ShadowPropTypesIOS documentation 736e900
  • Fix XMLHttpRequest.abort() not functional 995b66d
  • Fix promises on iOS to no longer wrap values in Arrays c9a1956